Nehemiah 3:1

_THEN ELIASHIB THE HIGH PRIEST ROSE UP WITH HIS BRETHREN THE PRIESTS, AND THEY BUILDED THE SHEEP GATE; THEY SANCTIFIED IT, AND SET UP THE DOORS OF IT; EVEN UNTO THE TOWER OF MEAH THEY SANCTIFIED IT, UNTO THE TOWER OF HANANEEL._ Then Eliashib the high priest - the grandson of Jeshua, and the first high priest after the return from Babylon. ROSE UP, WITH HIS BRETHREN THE PRIESTS - i:e., set an example by commencing the work, their labours being confined to the sacred localities. THEY BUILDED THE SHEEP GATE - close to the temple. Its name arose either from the sheep-market, or from the pool of Bethesda, where the sheep were washed, which was there (John 5:2) [in this passage, however, the rendering of the Septuagint, epi tee probatikee, is erroneously explained in the English version by agora, market, instead of by pulee, gate, as here and in...

CHAPTER III _The names of those who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem; and the_ _part assigned to each person_, 1-32. NOTES ON CHAP. III Verse Nehemiah 3:1. _ELIASHIB THE HIGH PRIEST_] It was right that the priests should be _first_ in this holy work; and perhaps the _sheep_ _gate_ which is mentioned here is that by which the offerings or sacrifices were brought into the temple. _THEY SANCTIFIED IT_] As they began with the sacred offering as soon as they got an altar built, it was proper that the gate by which these sacrifices entered should be consecrated for this purpose, i. e., set apart, so that it should be for this use only....

Eliashib (compare the marginal reference) was the grandson of Joshua, the high priest contemporary with Zerubbabel. THE SHEEP GATE - This was a gate in the eastern wall, not far from the pool of Bethesda, marginal reference, which was perhaps originally a sheep-pool. The exact line which the writer follows in describing the circuit of the wall will probably be always a matter of dispute. According to the view here taken, the line described commences near the pool of Bethesda, on the east of the city, and is traced thence, first, northward, then westward, then southward, and finally eastward, as far as the pool of Siloam Nehemiah 3:15. From this point, it seems to the writer of this note that the line of the outer wall is not followed, but, instead of this, the inner wall of the “city of D

EXPOSITION COMMENCEMENT OF THE WORK, AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE WORKING PARTIES, WITH THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO SUPERINTENDED THE BUILDING (Nehemiah 3:1. ). The especial object of this chapter seems to be the rendering of honour where honour was due—the putting on record of the names of the men who boldly came to the front on this occasion, sacrificed their ease to their duty, and exposed themselves to a threatened hostile attack (Nehemiah 4:8). Though Nehemiah's eloquence had ca

SHEEP The sheep for sacrifice were brought in here. (_ See Scofield) - (John 5:2). _ TOWER The towers appear to have been on either side the sheep gate....

CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The builders of the sheep gate (Nehemiah 3:1)_ 2. The builders of the fish gate (Nehemiah 3:3) 3. The repairers of the old gate (Nehemiah 3:6) 4. The repairers of the valley gate (Nehemiah 3:13) 5. The repairers of the dung gate (Nehemiah 3:14) 6. The repairers of the gate of the fountain (Nehemiah 3:15) 7. The repairers of the water gate ...

THE BUILDING OF THE WALLS, This is an independent section which breaks the connexion between Nehemiah 2:20 and Nehemiah 4:1 ff.; it is an excerpt which commences with And Eliashib. (not then Eliashib. as RV), thus betraying a connexion with something which must originally have preceded it. As the text now stands, the contents of the section do not follow on logically after Nehemiah 2:20. Further, the description here given, in itself incomplete, of the distribution of the work represents the different parts of the wall as having been repaired simultaneously, but this is contradicted by Nehemiah 6:1....

ELIASHIB. God restores. The son of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua (Compare Nehemiah 12:10). He was earnest in material work, but negligent of what was spiritual (See Nehemiah 13:4; Nehemiah 13:7). THE SHEEP GATE. Near the present St. Stephen's gate, at north-east corner of Temple area. So called because the sheep for sacrifice were brought in here. Compare John 5:2. This was the point of beginning and ending. See App-59. DOORS. Hebrew. _dal =_. door or gate hanging on hinges; not the same word as Nehemiah 3:20. Hananeel.

Nehemiah 3:1-32. The Distribution of the Work The Rebuilding of the Wall. The present chapter mentions 42 portions of the work. But the description is clearly incomplete; and we may suppose that Nehemiah's list either has been only partially reproduced by the Compiler or had been preserved in a mutilated copy. See notes on Nehemiah 3:7_; Nehemiah 3:25_. _Eliashib the high priest_ Eliashib was the son of Joiakim, and the grandson of Jeshua (Ezra 3:2; Nehemiah 12:10). Though he co-operated in the work of rebuilding the walls, his close conn

THEN ELIASBIB THE HIGH PRIEST— Eliashib was the grandson of Jeshua the high-priest; and he, with his brethren the priests, set a noble example, in being the first to rebuild the walls of the holy city, which the Babylonians had burned when they took it. The sheep-gate was on the south side of the city, in that part of the valley which looked toward mount Zion and the temple. It had its name from the sheep intended for sacrifice being brought through it to the temple. See John 5:2. REFLECTIONS.—The work being resolved upon, we have here the distribution of it. Holy emulation warmed their hearts, and zeal for the public welfare quickened their labour. 1. The high-priest, with his brethren, led the way; and when they had finished their portion, they sanctified it by prayer and thanksgiving for the assistance that God had given them. _Note;_ (1.) Ministers of God should shew, amo